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Originally Posted by Mars Rocket
"hopefully"? Think of all those people spending hundreds or thousands of $$ on interconnects and speaker wire. The signal is only as good as its weakest link, and routing it through a mechanical relay can't be a good thing in the long term. Are the relay contacts gold-plated? Does anybody even manufacture high-end relays? I suspect the relays they use will probably do fine for as long as most people use the equipment (5 years? 10 years?), but it is a cause for concern and is *one* of the reasons I went with Pioneer instead of Denon. |
man, through that whole post you were about to win an award for debunking cable myths with obvious truth, then when you get to the end i realize that it isn't sarcasm. oh well.
i would wager that you'll probably find a grand total of 2 or 3 companies at
most who make these relays and sell them to electronics manufacturers, so there's a pretty good chance that they're all the same.
look at the "bulging capacitor" issue with computer motherboards from a couple of years ago. one component manufacturer makes bad batches of capacitors with a formula that they forgot to test first, and at least 10 different motherboard manufacturers have had multiple faulty motherboards from the situation since.
and before you try to claim that audio gear is different and your preferred brand uses different electronic components, no, they're not different, pretty much all using the same stuff. pick two and open them up and take a look sometime.